Characters
This book introduces the reader to Violet, Klaus and Sunny, the three main protagonists of the series, and the primary antagonist, Count Olaf. It also introduces Mr. Poe, Justice Strauss, the hook-handed man, the bald man with the long nose, the two powder-faced women and the person who looks like neither a man nor a woman. It contains the sole appearances of Mr Poe's wife and sons, and of the wart-faced man, an associate of Count Olaf's who is sometimes confused with the bald man with the long nose.
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“For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.”
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“The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”
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